Fate and a flight

4:28 PM,
Nov. 8, 2013

Written by

Lenore Skenazy

As I was flying to New York from Los Angeles about a month ago, the flight attendant announced that because of "heightened security," passengers in coach -- yours truly -- were expressly forbidden from using the bathroom that might be closest to us and required to march to the back instead. Apparently, if we took a few steps forward, bladders full, this could all too easily be construed as our rushing the cockpit to execute the pilots and commandeer the plane.

Yup. Except for the little fact that most cockpit doors are reinforced and -- oh, yeah -- locked. Not to mention the fact that today's ...